Bedlam in the New World : a Mexican madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment /

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"Christina Ramos reconstructs the history of this overlooked colonial hospital from its origins in 1567 to its transformation in the eighteenth century, when it began to admit a growing number of patients transferred from the Inquisition and secular criminal courts. Drawing on the poignant voic...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ramos, Christina (Historian) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Hospital de San Hipólito (Mexico City, Mexico) > History.
Hospital de San Hipólito (Mexico City, Mexico)
Psychiatric hospitals > Mexico > Mexico City > History.
Psychiatry > Mexico > History.
Enlightenment > Mexico.
Siècle des Lumières > Mexique.
HISTORY / Latin America / General
Psychiatry
Psychiatric hospitals
Enlightenment
Mexico > Mexico City
Mexico
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Casting light from the margins
  • Bedlam in the New World
  • An enlightened madhouse
  • It is easy to mistake a heretic for a madman : The view from the Inquisition
  • Medicalization and its discontents
  • Crime and punishment
  • Conclusion : A defense of Bedlam.

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